P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome contributors to In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa for a reading and celebration of the publication of this anthology — and the life and work of Fernando Pessoa!
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Aileen Bassis is the author of two chapbooks, The Other Side of the Mirror and Advice for Travelers. Shanti Arts will publish her full-length collection in 2026. She was awarded poetry residencies to Yaddo and the Atlantic Center for the Arts and received a grant in literature from NY State Council on the Arts.
Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present; a memoir entitled Hitchcock Blonde; and two books of translation, most recently Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga. Dolin is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City.
Erica Ehrenberg’s poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Paris Review Podcast, Poetry Daily, The Bennington Review, the Harvard Review, Guernica, BOMB Magazine, The Common, Pioneer Works’ Broadcast, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, she will be opening a private practice as a Psychoanalyst this spring.
Lynn Emanuel is the author of six books of poetry. Her selected poems, The Nerve of It, was awarded the Lenore Marshall Award by The Academy of American Poets. She has been awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Poetry Series Award, and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Her poetry has been published and reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, LA Review of Books, and Publisher’s Weekly.
Sandy Feinstein first studied creative writing as a teen at the New School. She has since published in anthologies on poets speaking to poets and Shakespeare, also on Chaucer in The Prose Poem; this year Willow's Wept nominated her for a Pushcart. Her chapbook, Swimming to Syria, appeared in 2021.
Poet and essayist Megan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of AWP's Creative Nonfiction Award, and Mapmaking (BkMk Press, 2010), awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. She lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brittany, France.
Joy Ladin is the author of elevenbooks of poetry, including recently published Family and National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna, and three books about trans and non-binary identities: Once Out of Nature, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life, and The Soul of the Stranger.
Katherine Vaz, a former Briggs-Copeland Fellow in fiction at Harvard and a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, is the author of Saudade, Mariana, Fado & Other Stories (Drue Heinz Prize), Our Lady of the Artichokes (Prairie Schooner Award) and, mostly recently, Above The Salt, a People Magazine Book of the Week. She is the first Portuguese-American to have work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress.
Naomi Washer is a writer and psychoanalyst in training in New York City. Her newest book, Marginalia: an autobiography will be published by Autofocus in September 2025. She is the author of a novel, Subjects We Left Out (Veliz Books, 2021), and several chapbooks across genre. She is the host of Reading Around the Margins, a podcast about the books we mark up and the books that mark us.
